Elliot Strunk

Artist Statement

Our lives are layers of interactions, intersections, and conversations with constant demands on our attention, money, and appetites—different forms of consumption. What we eat. What we read. What we buy. What we see. These ideas find their way into my work.

My collage art is made using found objects and ephemera. Cardboard from a case of cat food or beer. Trash discovered in a parking lot. Preselected colors from completed paint-by-numbers kits. There is no master plan. What gets used is left to chance. It arrives via mail, traveling, and whatever I stumble upon, living my life daily.

Many different artists influence me but find myself returning to the design work of David Carson and Vaughan Oliver and the collage art of Robert Motherwell and Mike McQuade.

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Artist Bio

Elliot Strunk is a North Carolina transplant from Cleveland, Ohio, with a BFA in Graphic Design from Ohio University. An award-winning designer, he has taught design classes at Salem College and Guilford College and is currently advising his alma mater’s design program. While not a stranger to fine art, Elliot has only recently begun his collage work in earnest. His art is made using found objects and ephemera.

Exhibits of Note

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